On 5/26/2006 4:13 PM, Jan Brasna wrote: >>> Eg. by adding a "timestamp" to the stylesheet's URI: >>> >>> <link href="style.css?20060526T2150" ... >> Could you expand on this, or link to an article that explains why this >> works? I'm not familiar with the '?' suffix (unless we're using PHP, of >> course). Is it standard? > > Brett, "?" is not a suffix. It's a query-string separator, see > appropriate RFCs on this. It's the same as the PHP mentioned by you - > the file requested is the "style.css" with the parameter. However, as > long as it's just a vanilla CSS, the parameter is simply discarded. For > the server. Not for the client - different parameter, different cache, > different request. So when you change the parameter, the browser > requests the fresh version.
Thanks for the clarification. Nifty, useful trick ;) I think I'd heard of it before, but had no idea why it worked. Thanks, Brett ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
